NEW BOOK

Room by Leta Austin Foster
Photograph by Edward Addeo

Well, I just sent in a possible preface to the author, Brian Coleman, of a book that is being written about our firm, Leta Austin Foster and Associates.  I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, but Gibbs Smith, the publisher of Brian’s best-selling book, Farrow and Ball, the Art of Color, and also his other books, including one of Fortuny, one of my favourite sources, is publishing this book, with beautiful photographs by Erik Kralsvik.  I was very honoured to be asked to have this book about us.  It is a wonderful thing for both me and my daughters, who work with me and of whom I am so proud.  A fabulous and loyal client, Carole Jankowsky, has always wanted there to be a book on our work.  I hope this next book makes her very happy.

Since I am neither writing it or shooting the pictures or publishing it , I blithely assumed it would require nothing from me.  How foolish I was.  Every picture in it has, apparently, to tell a story, and they all need factual identification, such as what fabric here? Who painted this? Who designed this cornice?  Made the curtains?  And, of course, I want all this known, since all these sources are what allow me to do what I do.

So, since I can’t show the new pictures until the book comes out—next fall, a year from now, just in time for your Christmas shopping, I think I’ll show you some of the wonderful pictures from the former book in which we were presented before, the Farrow and Ball book.

Room by Leta Austin Foster
Photograph by Edward Addeo

Room by Leta Austin Foster
Photograph by Edward Addeo

Room by Leta Austin Foster
Photograph by Edward Addeo

Room by Leta Austin Foster
Photograph by Edward Addeo

Room by Sallie Giordano
Leta Austin Foster & Associates

Room by Sallie Giordano
Leta Austin Foster & Associates

Room by Sallie Giordano
Leta Austin Foster & Associates

We loved doing all of those houses—just as we loved doing the houses—and clubs and apartment lobbies—in the new book.  Hope you enjoyed that book—which you can still buy at Amazon.com—and will equally enjoy the next one.  We are very excited about it.

XOXOXOXOX 

LETA